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# First Draft
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/first-draft/
- Published: 2023-08-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Quill dipped in ink, what's it to be? A tale of star crossed lovers? A windswept isle, a stormy sea, a general that discovers his cheating wife, but it's a plot? To be -- he writes -- to be or not.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Quill dipped in ink, what's it to be?  
A tale of star crossed lovers?  
A windswept isle, a stormy sea,  
a general that discovers  
his cheating wife, but it's a plot?  
To be -- he writes -- to be or not.

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